Kubernetes 1.7 is now available in Ubuntu

Canonical has announced official support for Kubernetes 1.7 in Ubuntu. Ubuntu is the first operating system that provides enterprise support for Kubernetes 1.7 and it makes use of Ubuntu kernel optimizations to provide best experience on cloud systems.

Kubernetes is an open-source platform for automated deployment, scaling, and operations of application containers across clusters of hosts, providing container-centric infrastructure. Kubernetes 1.7 features improved security, support for state-ful applications, and extensibility. With Canonical support for Kubernetes, enterprises can easily install and configure Kubernetes.

This is a Canonical distribution of pure-upstream Kubernetes,
designed for ease of deployment and operations on public clouds and
on-premise on bare metal, VMware, or OpenStack. The Canonical
distribution osf Kubernetes is also easy to spin up on developer laptops
using LXD containers for component isolation and distributed system
simulation.

The Canonical installer makes upgrades simple, enables you to grow
the K8s cluster dynamically, and takes advantage of Ubuntu’s kernel
optimisations on every cloud. The Ubuntu kernel is widely considered the
best kernel for large-scale container deployments.

For further information, see original announcement published on Ubuntu Insights.